Silver Lining: Cloud Computing for Academic Libraries
Smita Panda, Amit Kumar Shaw
International Journal of Information Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2000.
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Link: https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v6n3/ijisv6n3_3.pdf
Abstract:
In traditional computing, operating system would have installed software programs that manages computer
hardware, resources and provides common services. Resources are accessible on one network, canâ€™t be accessed by computers
outside the network, but only through the internet. Cloud computing brings the revolutionary changes in the world of ICT
because of its benefits such as reduced cost, accessible anywhere anytime as well as its elasticity and flexibility. Cloud
computing is a new technique grown from being a promising concept to one of the fastest growing trend in the field of IT
industry more so in libraries. Cloud computing provides us virtually unlimited and on demand computing resources to the
users connecting lots of distributed computers, rather than local computer or remote server, while the processing of data
centers would be more similar as internet. Thus, resources would be switched on the application of need, which could be
accessed to computing and storage system as the requirement of the user. Cloud computing is useful for library services and
digital library resources to improve information sharing capabilities, improve resource utilization and in meeting the
various demands of user communities. This paper describes what cloud computing is for libraries and its merits, features and
types to be considered before putting the data in the cloud. And few case studies are discussed.